In the light of early management practices, discuss the role of the manager in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century.
In the light of early management practices, discuss the role of the manager in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century.
Since the dawn of time, people have been managing themselves as well as others to get activities completed. Management has become an increasingly demanding and difficult task, with many different approaches to the role of management evolving throughout the ages. The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century influenced management greatly, largely due to the introduction of the widespread use of machines in organizations. During the first half of the twentieth century management thought became very diverse, and with this bought four different management approaches: Scientific management, General administrative, Quantitative and Organizational behavior. The turbulent and rapidly changing global environment of the 21st century has brought about new standards and expectations of managers in organizations. This essay examines the role of the manager in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century. The essay is structured such that it will briefly analysis early management practices; this will follow with a discussion of the role of the Australian manager in the new millennium in comparison to early management practices.
Management practices have been existing for thousands of years, however, it has only been in the past several hundred years that management has been systematically investigated and studied. The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, largely due to the introduction of the widespread use of machines in organizations to substitute human power, acted as a catalyst, marking the start of the serious study of management and organizations. (Robbins et al., 2000, p. 41). The arrival of machine power, mass production, and reduced transportation costs aided the creation of big corporations that incorporated Adam Smith's 'division of labour' technique to improve productivity (Shafritz and Ott, 1992, p. 28).
Since the dawn of time, people have been managing themselves as well as others to get activities completed. Management has become an increasingly demanding and difficult task, with many different approaches to the role of management evolving throughout the ages. The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century influenced management greatly, largely due to the introduction of the widespread use of machines in organizations. During the first half of the twentieth century management thought became very diverse, and with this bought four different management approaches: Scientific management, General administrative, Quantitative and Organizational behavior. The turbulent and rapidly changing global environment of the 21st century has brought about new standards and expectations of managers in organizations. This essay examines the role of the manager in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century. The essay is structured such that it will briefly analysis early management practices; this will follow with a discussion of the role of the Australian manager in the new millennium in comparison to early management practices.
Management practices have been existing for thousands of years, however, it has only been in the past several hundred years that management has been systematically investigated and studied. The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, largely due to the introduction of the widespread use of machines in organizations to substitute human power, acted as a catalyst, marking the start of the serious study of management and organizations. (Robbins et al., 2000, p. 41). The arrival of machine power, mass production, and reduced transportation costs aided the creation of big corporations that incorporated Adam Smith's 'division of labour' technique to improve productivity (Shafritz and Ott, 1992, p. 28).
